Dr. Paul E. Chodoff C’34, Easthampton, Mass., a retired psychiatrist, Aug. 21, 2011.Edna Coplin Koretsky Warsowe CW’34, Washington, April 24. A former book reviewer, she had served on the national board of Common Cause for several years, and was president of the Florida chapter. She was Parade Marshal at Alumni Day 2009. Her grandson is Dr. Alexander Bush V’11.

Leo C. Balzereit W’39, Washington, Conn., Dec. 10, 2010. At Penn he was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity.James S. Cox ME’39, Nazareth, Pa., Nov. 1. At Penn, he was a member of Delta Psi fraternity and the crew and fencing teams.Mary Beaman Wilgus NEd’39, Milwaukee, March 2.

1940John H. Davies WEV’40, Rydal, Pa., a retired CPA manager at Ernst & Young; Sept. 6. He served in the US Navy during World War II.Dr. Henry H. Fertig Jr. C’40 M’43, Laramie, Wyo., a physician; March 19. During World War II, he served in the US Army.Lester R. Giegerich W’40, Darien, Conn., head of a mortgage-transactions company; Jan. 17. He served in the US Air Force during World War II.Louis Ritter W’40 L’43, Boynton Beach, Fla., founder of an insurance agency in New York state; April 11. He served in the US Army during World War II.

1941Stanley H. Fried W’41, New Orleans, a retired executive with the Krauss Co., the air-conditioning firm; Jan. 20. During World War II, he served in the US Army, earning a Bronze Star.Malcolm Klein W’41, State College, Pa., former prominent figure in New York’s printing industry,he served as president of the Navigators and the Lithographers Guild; Jan. 31. At Penn, he was a member of Beta Sigma Rho fraternity and the crew and squash teams. He had served on the board of the New School for Social Research. He was a veteran of the US Navy. His sons are Joseph A. Klein C’68 and Kenneth B. Klein W’72.Mitchell W. Miller C’41 L’48, Vero Beach, Fla., a bankruptcy lawyer; Dec. 14, 2010. At Penn, he was a member of Phi Epsilon Pi fraternity and the Penn Band. He co-wrote Bankruptcy Law and the Creditor. He served in the US Navy during World War II.Lydia Rewis Runkel FA’41, Waukesha, Wisc., March 23.Edwin W. Steidle W’41, Scottsdale, Ariz., Sept. 22. At Penn, he was a member of Alpha Chi Rho fraternity and the varsity crew and wrestling teams.Albert W. Weniger W’41, Drexel Hill, Pa., Sept. 9, 2010. At Penn, he was a member of Alpha Chi Rho fraternity.

1942

J. Richardson Adams Jr. C’42, Hampton, N.H., Jan. 31.Edward B. Allen Jr. Ed’42 GEd’48, Colorado Springs, Colo., March 1. An All-American football player at Penn, he was also on the varsity track team. He was a member of the Sphinx Society and Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. He had played for the Chicago Bears. He worked in financial services for the city of Philadelphia. He served in the US Army and the US Air Force during World War II.Harriet Ross Bergman CW’42, Los Angeles, April 19, 2011. At Penn, she was a member of Delta Phi Epsilon sorority.Robert M. Bracken W’42, Corry, Pa., Jan. 25, 2011.Dr. Wade M. Cline GM’42, Birmingham, Ala., June 25, 2011.Dr.Daniel B. Freeman C’42 D’43, Dingmans Ferry, Pa., a retired dentist; March 26. During World War II, he served in the US Army.Mildred B. Hanak Ed’42, Merion, Pa., Jan. 22.Harold Horwitz W’42, Monsey, N.Y., a retired manufacturer of arts and crafts materials; Oct. 28.Bette Winters Huester CW’42, Denver, Feb. 16. At Penn she was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority.Arnold L. Lowe W’42, Swarthmore, Pa., July 23, 2011.George M. Martin W’42, Easton, Pa., a retired realtor; Jan. 15.Richard D. Rosenberg W’42, Haifa, Israel, retired associate professor of industrial engineering at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology; March 7. During World War II, he served as a communications officer in the US Navy.Herbert Rubenstein C’42 G’43, Lower Saucon, Pa., a former professor of linguistics at Lehigh University; Nov. 27.Thelma Thornberg HUP’42, Niagara Falls, N.Y., a retired obstetrics-gynecology nurse; March 17, 2011.

1943

Horace L. Acaster CE’43, Tucson, Ariz., Jan. 6. At Penn, he was a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity and the crew team.Dr. Rodney H. Chase C’43, Sun City Center, Fla., Jan. 24.June Peiffer Dolph GEd’43, Ithaca, N.Y., former art supervisor for the Ithaca City Schools; Nov. 3, 2010.Violet Hursh Meehan Ed’43 GEd’43 L’45, Newton Square, Pa., a retired attorney; Aug. 2, 2011.Dr. James D. Piver M’43, Beaufort, N.C., a retired physician; April 7, 2011. During World War II, he served in the US Army.Dr. J. Rowland Reid M’43, Colorado Springs, Colo., a retired physician; Feb. 29. His research at the University of Michigan helped lead to the first medication for tuberculosis. During World War II, he served in the US Army.Dr. Ellis B. Rifkin ChE’43, West Bloomfield, Mich., April 30, 2011.Richard Steiner W’43, Pittsboro, N.C., Aug. 7, 2011.

1944Dr. Frank R. Berson D’44, Weston, Mass., Jan. 30.M. Elizabeth Schwab Burke Ed’44 GEd’55, Malvern, Pa., March 5, 2011.Dr. Frank Cox C’44 M’50, Avon Lake, Ohio, former director of medical education at Henry Ford Hospital; April 13. He co-founded the Infectious Disease Society of America. During World War II, he served in the US Army.Margaret Luraas Deitz OT’44, Bowie, Md., Oct. 24.Dr. Paul C. Houston M’44, Middletown, R.I., a former chief of surgery at Newport Hospital, who had served there from 1952 until 1997; Aug. 21. He was honored as Physician of the Year by the hospital in 1990. During World War II, he served as captain in the medical corps of the US Army. His son is Dr. Jeffrey P. Houston C’85.L. James Huegel L’44, Pittsburgh, retired executive vice president of Consol Energy; Feb. 26. He had served in the US Merchant Marines.Leslie G. Kohn ME’44, Aventura, Fla., July 12, 2011.William David Leech C’44 G’46, Knoxville, Tenn., May 2, 2011.Dr. Leonard L. Millican D’44, Sun City Center, Fla., a retired dentist; Feb. 27. Straight after graduation, he was sent to serve with the US Army in Europe.

Dr. John O. Bower D’46, Humboldt, Iowa, May 13, 2011.Dr.William O. Robinson C’46 M’48, Pittsburgh, retired director of emergency medicine at Mercy Hospital; March 11. At Penn, he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity. 1947Patricia L. Baker Ed’47, Berkeley, Calif., June 26, 2011. At Penn she was a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority.Hon. Harry G. Banzhoff W’47, Mechanicsburg, Pa., a retired administrative-law judge with the state public-utility commission; March 12. During World War II, he served in the US Navy.Dr. Reid Binder C’47, Oceanside, Calif., Dec. 14, 2010.Lillian Chong Pardee OT’47, Collingswood, N.J., a retired occupational therapist; Jan. 26, 2011.Pollyanna Peters HUP’47, Allentown, Pa., a retired antiques dealer; April 6.Raymond J. Regan W’47, Tucson, Ariz., March 17, 2011. At Penn, he had been a member of the varsity crew team.Ablyn Gordon Sachs CW’47, Dover, Del., Dec. 11, 2010. She had worked in her family’s children’s clothing and shoe business for many years. Her husband is Norman W. Sachs C’45. 1948

Arnold Berkowitz W’48, Maple Glen, Pa., a former tax accountant; March 20.Edward J. Bolstrum C’48, Harrisburg, Pa., Nov. 7.Hon. James F. Brown Jr. L’48, Allentown, Pa., Sept. 29.Dr. Ted Carageorge C’48, Atlanta, Dec. 30, 2010.Dr. John P. Donovan D’48, Emerson, N.J., Dec. 19.Dr. Louis J. Hoechstetter W’48, Pittsburgh, a former psychologist at Florida State Hospital; Oct. 11. At Penn, he was a member of the track and swimming teams. During World War II, he served in the US Air Force.Arthur J. Horwitz W’48, New York, principal owner of Hamilton Capital Corporation; July 10, 2011. At Penn, he was a member of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity. He served in World War II, receiving four Medals of Honor. His daughter is Jan Horwitz Abraham CW’73.Dr. William W. Langebartel Gr’48, Cedars, Pa., Feb. 17.Burgess Joslyn Lawrence CW’48, Orono, Maine, a former editor for Reader’s Digest magazine; Nov. 15.Dr.Royal T. Popper GD’48, Warminster, Pa., a retired orthodontist; Feb. 26. During World War II, he had served in the US Army.Dr. Lee F. Reilly Jr. D’48, Essex Junction, Vt., April 27, 2011.Isabel E. Whitaker CW’48, Floyd, Va., a former English teacher in Delaware elementary schools, who later taught English as a second language, retiring again at age 81; April 23, 2011. She was a member of Alpha Chi Omega sorority. Her brother is Royall Whitaker C’52 Gr’65.Rev. Robert W. Wood W’48, Concord, N.H., a retired United Church of Christ pastor in Maynard, Mass.; March 23. He wrote Christ and the Homosexual, (1960), the first book published in the US on Christianity and homosexuality. During World War II, he served with the US Army in Italy.

1949

Dr. Landis Barish C’49, Atlantis, Fla., Oct. 5.C. Benjamin Brooks Jr. WG’49, Cresskill, N.J., Nov. 15.David R. Craig WG’49, Naples, Fla., Feb. 10.Dr. David H. Dabney C’49, Washington, Dec. 13, 2010.Edward L. Davis Jr. CCC’49, Washington, Feb. 27.Robert L. Eller W’49, Gettysburg, Pa., head of marketing and sales promotion at Military Sales Group in Fairfield, N.J.; Feb. 5. During World War II, he served as a naval engineer in the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean. At Penn, he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. His daughter is Nancy J. Eller WG’83.Frank K. Esherick Jr. W’49, Upper St Clair, Pa., April 5. He had worked for Cahners Publishing. At Penn he was a member of Phi Delta Gamma fraternity and the soccer team. During World War II, he served in the US Navy.Gloria Fan Ar’49 GAr’50, New York, July 22, 2011.John H. Jensen C’49, Ithaca, N.Y., Oct. 4. At Penn, he was a member of Kappa Alpha fraternity.Edward L. Laquer ME’49, Doylestown, Pa., retired owner of a computer consultancy; Nov. 23. He served in the US Army during World War II and the US Air Force during the Korean War.John H. Long W’49, York, Pa., retired vice president of Long Service Company; June 3, 2010. He served in the US Army during World War II.Donald C. Meeker FA’49 GFA’50, Falls Church, Va., Dec. 19.Tamblin C. Smith W’49, Newport Beach, Calif., retired head of a branch of the Menasha Corp., his family’s firm; Dec. 24. His brother is Clark R. Smith W’61.Atha Tehon Thiras GFA’49, East Syracuse, N.Y., retired art director at Dial Books and Penguin-Putnam Books; Feb. 15.Jerome J. Wean Ed’49 GEd’52, Roslindale, Mass., Oct. 3. His daughter is Abigail R. Wean C’87.John Marlin Shreiner W’47, Ephrata, Pa., a retired attorney; March 2. He had served in the US Army during World War II.

Marcia G. Alexander CW’50, Cherry Hill, N.J., Sept. 3, 2010.Rev. James M. Armstrong C’50, Tallahassee, Fla., Nov. 20, 2010.Edward B. Aston Jr. GEd’50, Harrisburg, Pa., Oct. 20.Catherine H. Borka CW’50, Chandler, Ariz., Feb. 8, 2011.Harvey F. Brandenburg W’50, Miami, Nov. 10.Vincent Bressi C’50, Maple Shade, N.J., Dec. 31.MaryAnn C. Buerkle Ed’50, Warren, Pa., a former teaching nurse at the Warren State Hospital, who later served as school nurse for the county school district; Jan. 2. Her son is Donald A. Buerkle W’87.Robert G. Cornforth ME’50, Cinnaminson, N.J., Dec. 7, 2010.Dr. Richard A. Dooley C’50 D’56, Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 13.Roger A. Dowlin W’50 G’61, North Wales, Pa., a retired real estate agent with Sauers Real Estate; Feb. 1. During World War II, he served in the US Marines.Edwin R. Ellis WEv’50, Bradenton, Fla., a retired sales executive with the Federal Reserve Bank in Philadelphia; March 8. He served in the US Navy during World War II.David C. Pierce W’50, Sarasota, Fla., retired director of personnel for IBM; April 16, 2011.Kenneth W. Rodman W’50, Sherborn, Mass., owner of Laurence Stationery Co. Inc.; March 11. During World War II, he served in the US Navy.Karl A. Zipf WG’50, Charlottesville, Va., former dean of administration and acting president at Schenectady County Community College; Oct. 5. Serving in the US Army during World War II, he received a Bronze Star, and also in the Vietnam War, when he received a Legion of Merit with oak-leaf cluster.

Mary Ann Fratkin Blum Ed’52, Philadelphia, Jan. 6.Mary Hemes Borgerding Ed’52, Beloit, Wis., March 5.John L. Brennan W’52, New Tripoli, Pa., a retired statistician with the Philadelphia health department; March 24. He served in the US Army during World War II.Dr. James O. Buswell III G’52, Wakefield, Mass., Aug. 8, 2011.Dr. James H. Davis M’52, Reading, Pa., a retired physician; April 7.John H. Evans WG’52, Greenville, Pa., former director of industrial relations for the Greenville Steel Car Co.; May 8, 2011.Dr. Robert J. Fallon C’52, Lunenburg, Mass., a retired veterinarian; March 21.Stanley B. Greenberg EE’52, Jenkintown, Pa., Oct. 25.Hugh Malcolm Judd Jr. WG’52, Shelbyville, Tenn., owner of Bedford Hosiery Mills, Inc.; May 28, 2011.Arthur F. Loeben W’52 G’61, Gwynedd, Pa., Oct. 18.Dr. William C. Pfefferle Gr’52, Madison, Conn., a co-founder of a clean-energy engine company; Dec. 28, 2010.Richard D. Thickstun C’52, Jensen Beach, Fla., Feb. 20. 1953Jeanne Depew Attenborough NEd’53, Palo Alto, Calif., a supervisor for the Visiting Nurse Association; Feb. 2.Dr. Francis F. Bartone C’53, Villanova, Pa., a retired pediatric urologist who was a chair of urology at the University of Nebraska; Feb. 20. At Penn, he was a member of the fencing team, and was inducted into Penn’s Athletic Hall of Fame.Dr. Anthony J. Calio Jr. CCC’53, Freeland, Wash., Jan. 14.William Polk Carey W’53, New York, founder of W. P. Carey & Company, an investment-management firm, where he played an early leading role in the use of sale-leasebacks for commercial real estate; Jan. 2. A prominent case by his company was the sale-leaseback of 21 floors of the new New York Times building in 2009. He established the W. P. Carey Foundation to facilitate his philanthropy. His brother is Francis J. Carey C’45 L’49.Dr. Rene J. Cossette GM’53, Poland, Ohio, July 25, 2010.John J. Dimino WEv’53, Norristown, Pa., May 29, 2011.Pauline Hudak Hardin HUP’53 Nu’60, Little Rock, Ark., former head nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital; Feb. 3, 2011.Richard A. Harter Ed’53, Hilton Head Island, S.C., a nationally prominent basketball coach who, as an assistant coach from 1958 to 1965 then coach from 1966 to 1971, started a resurgence of men’s basketball at Penn; March 12. As a student, he won three varsity letters in basketball; a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity, he was in the Friars Senior Society. Dick Harter later coached at the University of Oregon and Penn State, before serving as head coach and assistant coach for several NBA teams. He was inducted into the Big Five Hall of Fame in 1993 and was an inaugural inductee of the Penn Athletics Hall of Fame, 1996. His more recent mentions in the Gazette are an Alumni Profile “Hoops Lifer” (May|June 2009) and the feature “Almost Perfect” (Mar|Apr 2011), which describes his memorable team of 1970-71.Dr. Coleman G. Jacobson GM’53, Amherst, N.H., April 10.Joseph Klein Jr. W’53, Baltimore, March 4. His daughter is Cynthia Klein Goldberg C’80.Norma Geckeler Saltz CW’53, Ewing, N.J., a teacher of reading and writing at Jamesburg Prison and then at the New Grange School; Dec. 25.

1954Gary L. Baum W’54, West Palm Beach, Fla., Sept. 26.Frederic N. Close C’54, Newtown Square, Pa., May 18, 2010. At Penn, he was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity.Dr. George V. Fagan Gr’54, Colorado Springs, Colo., former professor of history and director of libraries at the US Air Force Academy; March 15. He wrote An Illustrated History of the Air Force Academy.William M. Mirenda Ar’54, Media, Pa., a founding partner of BBLM Architects in Philadelphia; Jan. 27.Dr. Robert V. Walker GD’54, Dallas, April 28, 2011.

1957Bernard D. Berman SW’57, Monroe, N.J., Oct. 30.Richard L. Daniels WG’57, Arlington, Va., a former senior manager at NASA; Feb. 12.Dr. E. Stephen Emanuel C’57, Broomall, Pa., a retired obstetrician-gynecologist; Jan. 25. He was a former president of the Haverford Community Hospital medical staff. His wife is Dr. Beverly Willis Emanuel CW’62 Gr’72, his daughter is Dr. Julie A. Gubernick C’86 M’90, and his son is Dr. Eric R. Emanuel C’89 M’93.Charles H. Hable GEd’57, Landenberg, Pa., retired assistant superintendent of the Springfield School District; Dec. 27.Col. Bruce F. Kolofske C’57, Alpharetta, Ga., a commissioned officer in the US Air Force; March 7. Serving the Vietnam War, he was awarded the Legion of Merit and The Distinguished Flying Cross. At Penn he was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity and the varsity crew team.Dr. Charles H. Ware GCh’57 Gr’59, Palm Harbor, Fla., a consultant who had served as head of a heavy-oil extraction company in Virginia; Feb. 20.

Due to faulty information from the Alumni Records Office, we mistakenly published the death of James S. Cruice Jr. C'76 W'76 in the print version of the July|August issue. He is very much alive, and we apologize to him and his family and friends.

Donald J. Casser W’77, Wauwatosa, Wis., Jan. 13. A former commodities broker in Chicago, he became a manufacturer of high-end stereo components. At Penn he was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity and the varsity sprint-football team.Joanne B. Jackson GRP’77, Philadelphia, former head of the Advocate Community Development Corp., which renovated dilapidated houses; Oct. 29. 2010. She helped set up the Firehouse Farmers Market on Baltimore Avenue.John C. Plisky WG’77, Manasquan, N.J., owner of a financial-services company in Brielle; Aug. 27, 2010.

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Francisco D. de la Torre L’78, Montclair, N.J., Nov. 28, 2010. At Penn he was a member of the squash team. His daughter is Francesca D. de la Torre-Shu C’04 GEd’07.Robert P. Pinkas L’78, Shaker Heights, Ohio, founder of Brantley Partners, a venture-capital and private-equity firm; March 18.

Dr. David A. Coffey W’82, Los Angeles, a psychiatrist in private practice who also served as medical director at Van Nuys Community Hospital; Jan. 17.Richard J. Loranger WG’82, Scarborough, Maine, Dec. 23. He had worked in venture capital in Philadelphia.

Richard A. Harter. See Class of 1953.Dr. Robert C. Melzi.See Class of 1962.Dr. Robert Summers, Philadelphia, professor emeritus of economics in the School of Arts & Sciences; April 17. He is is best known for his path-breaking work, with Penn professors Dr. Alan Heston and Dr. Irving B. Kravis Ed’38 Gr’47, in developing the Penn World Tables, which allow economists to measure aggregates and prices across nations and over time. Dr. Summers was awarded the Lindback Award in 1967, and was named a distinguished fellow of the American Economics Association in 1998, and elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2001. His wife is Dr. Anita Summers, professor emeritus of public policy, management, real estate, and education in the Wharton School. Two of their sons are Dr. Richard F. Summers M’84, whose wife is Ronnie L. Bloom C’80 L’85 and their son is Samuel Summers C’12; and John S. Summers L’84, whose wife is Jane S. Marans C’79. Dr. Robert Summers’ own brother was the famous economist Paul Samuelson and his third son is Lawrence Summers, who had served as US Treasury Secretary.Dr. Bernard Wailes, London, associate professor emeritus of anthropology and associate curator emeritus of European archaeology at the Penn Museum; March 30. Director of Penn excavations at a site in Ireland, he co-wrote Dún Ailinne: Excavations at an Irish Royal Site 1968-1975. He served as editor of the Museum’s magazine, Expedition, from 1978 to 1987.Dr. Walter Wales, Philadelphia, emeritus professor of physics and astronomy; Dec. 28. He came to Penn in 1959 and was appointed full professor in 1972; he specialized in experimental particle physics. He served in many positions in the university administration, including chair of the physics dept., interim dean, deputy provost, and University ombudsman. Dr. Wales was a former executive secretary of the High-Energy Physics Advisory Panel for the Atomic Energy Commission. Devoted to teaching, he won the Ira Abrams Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1990; he taught almost every semester until illness forced him to stop last year.Dr. Herbert Wilf, Philadelphia, the Thomas A. Scott Professor Emeritus of Mathematics; Jan. 7. He joined Penn in 1962 and retired in 2008. A pioneer in the mathematical programming of early computers, he co-wrote Mathematical Methods for Digital Computers (1960); he also wrote the textbook Mathematics for the Physical Sciences (1962). He co-founded The Journal of Algorithms in 1980 and The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics in 1994, and was editor-in-chief of The American Mathematical Monthly (1987-92). Dr. Wilf won the Leroy P. Steele Prize of the American Mathematical Society for Seminal Contributions to Research in 1998. He was an early advocate of the open electronic publishing of books and journals.Dr. Wayne L. Worrell, Penn Valley, Pa., professor emeritus of materials science and engineering; Feb. 18. He joined the Penn faculty in 1965 and retired in 2005. From 1986 to 1992, he served as dean of graduate education and research in SEAS. He had an international reputation for high-temperature materials research for his work on corrosion mechanisms and solid-oxide fuel cells. Dr. Worrell was former chair of the National Research Council on High Temperature Science and Technology. He was a past president of the Electrochemical Society and received its Carl Wagner Memorial Award. His wife is Judith Deignan Worrell GNu’71.